CX Funded PhD Studentships

Lancaster University is seeking to recruit five PhD students to participate in an exciting collaborative project with academic and industrial partners.

Urban Futures

A 4-year research project which uses future scenarios to measure the resilience of today’s urban regeneration solutions in terms of sustainability.

Creative IDEAS

The Creative IDEAS project is dedicated to impact generation through the design of innovative and highly interactive approaches, processes and tools for knowledge sharing.

HighWire

Each year HighWire recruits 10-12 exceptional students interested in working between and beyond the disciplines of computing, design and management.

Design PhD Conference 2011

Outcomes from the 2011 Design PhD Conference are now available, including Kevin Roberts' keynote.

Innovation through Improved Service & Design

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An open and exploratory design-led research lab at Lancaster University
We conduct applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.
We work with a variety of organisations to provide fresh perspectives on real-world issues and facilitate innovation.
We offer Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and PhD study opportunities. All our staff are active researchers with extensive expertise in teaching.

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PROUD launch Lancaster Co-design Challenge

PROUD launch Lancaster Co-design Challenge

The PROUD project officially launched in the UK on Tuesday 8th May at ImaginationLab. Over 100 people from business, academic, government and local communities came to hear how co-design is being used to solve complex societal challenges in Lancashire and across Northern Europe.

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Design and Spirituality: creating material culture for a wisdom economy

OutcomeJournal Paper

Contemporary calls for including ‘spiritual’ considerations in our understandings of sustainability are contextualized against the backdrop of modernity and the roots of design and manufacturing practices, as well as more recent design developments that focus on social innovation. An...More information

Getting to Grips with Knowledge Exchange for New IDEAS

Getting to Grips with Knowledge Exchange for New IDEAS

The first few weeks of my time at Imagination focusing on the New IDEAS project have flown by.  During this time, I have had the opportunity to design the mechanisms used in a workshop, produce the design for the New IDEAS project logo, been part of an interview panel for a new...Read full update

Will.i.am and Knowledge Exchange Toolkits

Articleby Leon Cruickshank
Will.i.am and Knowledge Exchange Toolkits

New IDEAS is all about designing new KE toolkits (by this we mean creating processes that act as a foil to enable knowledge exchange between others when we are not present).  We think we have a pretty good handle on KE and exchange toolkits, having read many KE events and developed many more KE mechanisms.

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The PROUD Sensitising Event 'City Park' Workshop at The Storey

The PROUD Sensitising Event 'City Park' Workshop at The Storey

An event at the Storey Creative Industries Centre to turn project consultation in the start of a co-design process. Here people started to design the intervention process for the next 6 months.

The Lancaster City Park initiative was discussed last month at a consultation event, and last...Read full update

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